Journal Publications

  • Aksoy, C., Can, F., Kocberber, S.. Novelty detection for topic tracking. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Vol. 63, No. 4 (2012), pp. 777-795.

  • Can, F., Kocberber, S., Baglioglu, O., Kardas, S., Ocalan, H. C., Uyar, E. New event detection and topic tracking in Turkish. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Vol. 61, No. 4 (April 2010), pp. 802-819. pdf.

  • Can, F., Patton, J. M. Change of Word Characteristics in 20th-century Turkish literature: A statistical analysis. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. Vol. 17, No. 3 (2010), pp. 167-190.

  • Can, F., Kocberber, S., Balcik, E., Kaynak, C., Ocalan, H. C., Vursavas, O. M. Information retrieval on Turkish texts. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Vol. 59, No. 3, (February, 2008), pp. 407-421.

  • Altintas, K., Can, F., Patton, J. M. Language change quantification using time-separated parallel translations. Literary & Linguistic Computing. Vol. 22, No. 4, (November, 2007), pp. 375-393.


    Conference Publications

  • Toraman, C., Can, F. "Squeezing the ensemble pruning: Faster and more accurate categorization for news portals." In: Proceedings of the 34th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR '2012), Barcelona, Spain, April 1-5, 2012. pp. 508-511.

  • Turel, A., Can, F. "A new approach to search result clustering and labeling." In: 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS '11), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 18-20, 2011, pp. 283-292.

  • Toraman, C., Can, F. "Ensemble pruning for text categorization based on data partitioning." In: 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS '11), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 18-20, 2011, pp. 352-361.

  • Karbeyaz, C., Can, E. F., Can, F., Kalpakli, M. "A content-based social network study of Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatname-Bitlis section." In: Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS '11), London, UK, September 26-28, 2011, pp. 271-275.

  • Can, F., Can, E. F., Karbeyaz, C. "Translation relationship quantification: A cluster-Based approach and its application to Shakespeare's sonnets." In: Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS '10), London, UK, September 22-24, 2010, pp. 117-120.

  • Aksoy, C., Bugdayci, A., Gur, T., Uysal, I., Can, F. "Semantic argument frequency-based multi-document summarization." In: Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS '09), North Cyprus, September 14-16, 2009, pp. 460-464.

  • Can, F., Kocberber, S., Baglioglu, O., Ercan, G., Kardas, S., Ocalan, H. C., Uyar, E., Koc, L. "Haber portallarında yenilikçi yaklaşımlar (Innovative Approaches in News Portals)." Akademik Bilişim Konferansı Bildirileri (Şanlıurfa, 11-13 Şubat 2009), pp. 581-587. pdf.

  • Can, F., Kocberber, S., Baglioglu, O., Kardas, S., Ocalan, H. C., Uyar, E. "Bilkent News Portal: A personalizable system with new event detection and tracking capabilities." (Demo paper.) In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Singapore, July 20-24, 2008), ACM, New York, pp. 885.

  • Can, F."New event detection and tracking: Test collection construction, algorithms, and evaluation." In the Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS '07), Ankara, Turkey, November 7-9, 2007. (Invited presentation abstract.)

  • Can, F, Kocberber, S., Baglioglu, O., Kardas, S., Ocalan, H. C., Uyar, E. "Turkce haberlerde yeni olay bulma ve izleme: Bir deney derleminin olusturulmasi (New event detection and tracking in Turkish news: Construction of a test collection."Degisen Dunyada Bilgi Yonetimi Sempozyumu (Symposium on Information Management in the Changing Word), Ankara, Turkey, October 24-26, 2007, Hacettepe Bilgi ve Belge Yonetimi Bolumu, pp. 50-59.

  • Can, F, Kocberber, S., Balcik, E., Kaynak, C., Ocalan, H. C., Vursavas, O. M. "First large scale information retrieval experiments on Turkish texts."  (Poster paper) In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Seattle, WA, August 6-11, 2006), ACM, New York, pp. 627-628.

  • Can, F. "Turkish information retrieval: Past changes future." (Invited paper.) In the Proceedings of the 4th Biennial International Conference on Advances in Information Systems (ADVIS '06), Izmir, Turkey, October 18-20, 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4243, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heildelberg, pp. 13-22.


    Publications with Other Research Groups

    Journal Publications

  • Sevil, S. G., Kucuktunc, O., Duygulu, P., Can, F. Automatic tag expansion using visual similarity for photo sharing websites. Multimedia Tools Appl.. Vol. 49, No. 1 (2010), pp. 81-99.

  • Altingovde, I. S., Demir, E., Can, F., Ulusoy, O. Incremental cluster-based retrieval using compressed cluster-skipping inverted files. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. Vol. 26, No. 3 (2008), pp. 1-36.

  • Kucukyilmaz, T., Cambazoglu, B. B., Aykanat, C., Can, F. Chat mining: Predicting user and message attributes in computer-mediated communication. Inf. Process. Manage.. Vol. 44, No. 4 (2008), pp. 1448-1466.


    • Conference Publications

  • Can, E. F., Can, F., Duygulu, P., Kalpakli, M. "Automatic categorization of Ottoman literary texts by poet and time period." In: 26th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2011), London, UK, September 26-28, 2011. pp. 51-57.

  • Varol, E., Can, F., Aykanat, C., Kaya, O. "CoDet: sentence-based containment detection in news corpora." In: Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011), Glasgow, UK, October 24-28, 2011. pp. 2049-2052.

  • Can, E. F., Duygulu, P., Can, F., Kalpakli, M. "Redif extraction in handwritten Ottoman literary texts." In: Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, August 23-26, 2010. pp. 1941-1944.

  • Ercan, G., Can, F. "Cover coefficient-based multi-document summarization." In: Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2009), Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009. pp. 670-674.

  • Zamalieva, D., Kalaycilar, F., Kale, A., Pehlivan, S., Can, F. "Stylistic document retrieval for Turkish." In the Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS '09), North Cyprus, September 14-16, 2009, pp. 663-667.

  • Altingovde, I. S., Can, F., Ulusoy, O. "Efficient processing in category-restricted queries for web directories." In: Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2008), Glasgow, UK, March 30-April 3, 2008. pp. 695-699.

  • Kucuktunc, O., Sevil, S. G., Tosun, A. B., Zitouni, H., Duygulu, P., Can, F. "Tag suggestr: Automatic photo tag expansion using visual information for photo sharing websites." In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2008), Koblenz, Germany, December 3-5, 2008. pp. 61-73.

  • Altingovde, I. S., Demir, E., Can, F., Ulusoy, O. "Site-based dynamic pruning for query processing in search engines." In: Proceedings of the 31 st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Singapore, July 20-24, 2008), ACM, New York, pp. 861-862.

  • Altingovde, I. S., Ozcan, R., Ocalan, H. C., Can, F., Ulusoy, O. "Large-scale cluster-based retrieval experiments in Turkish texts." In: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Singapore, July 23-27, 2007), ACM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 891-892.

  • Kucukyilmaz, T., Cambazoglu, B. B., Aykanat, C., Can, F. "Chat Mining for Gender Prediction." In the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Information Systems (ADVIS '06), Izmir, Turkey, October 18-20, 2006, pp. 274-283.

  • Altingovde, I. S., Can, F., Ulusoy, O. "Algorithms for Within-Cluster Searches Using Inverted Files." In the Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS '06), Istanbul, Turkey, November 1-3, 2006, pp. 707-716.


    Theses

  • Köroğlu, B. Cascaded Cross Entropy-based Search Result Diversification. Master Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, September 2012.

  • Yeniçağ, A. A Template-Independent Content Extraction Approach for News Web Pages.. Master Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, September 2012.

  • Toraman, Ç. Text Categorization and Ensemble Pruning in Turkish News Portals. Master Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, August 2011.

  • Türel, A. A New Approach to Search Result Clustering and Labeling. Master Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, August 2011.

  • Karbeyaz, C. A Cluster-Based External Plagiarism and Parallel Corpora Detection Method. Master Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, July 2011.

  • Aksoy, C. Novelty Detection in Topic Tracking. Master Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, July 2010.

  • Baglıoğlu, Ö. New Evet Detection Using Chronological Term Ranking. Master Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, May, 2009.

  • Kardaş, S. New Event Detection and Tracking in Turkish.Master Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, May, 2009.

  • Öcalan, H. Ç. Bilkent News Portal: A System with New Event Detection and Tracking Capabilities.Master Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, May, 2009.

  • Uyar, E. Near-Duplicate News Detection Using Named Entities.Master Thesis, Computer Engineering Department, Bilkent University, May, 2009.